Group member Allison McMinn, who recently defended her PhD, was chosen to represent the Fulton Schools of Engineering in recognition of her outstanding commitment to the ASU community through numerous leadership roles across several Fulton student organizations, as well as for her academic achievements. Each semester, the Fulton Schools selects graduating students who exemplify academic…

The MBE Optoelectronics Group proudly congratulates Razine Hossain on being recognized as the ARCS Dalke Family Scholar at the ARCS 50th Dinner Celebration, which honors outstanding scholars advancing STEM in America. Razine’s research focuses on next-generation solar technologies based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) and cadmium selenium telluride (CdSeTe), with the goal of improving the efficiency,…

We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Allison McMinn on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Design, Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth, and Applications of Narrow-Gap Semiconductor Quantum Structures.” Dr. McMinn will join the Air Force Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral scholar. We wish her continued success in her career and look forward to future collaborations and…

Dr. Yong-Hang Zhang has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Paul-Drude-Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI), a leading institute within the Leibniz Association in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Zhang is well known for his contributions to molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and advanced semiconductor heterostructures, enabling the production of high-quality materials for next-generation electronic…

Dr. Yong-Hang Zhang and PhD candidate Allison McMinn recently participated in the prestigious SPIE Photonics West (PW 2026) conference in San Francisco, CA. This globally recognized event is renowned for its focus on cutting-edge photonics technologies, including lasers, biomedical optics, biophotonics, quantum, and optoelectronics. Allison McMinn presented on “Strain-balanced SiGe/GeSn Superlattices Grown on Ge Substrates…

ASU Full Circle just published a feature article about Prof. Zhang and our group’s research.  

Members of the ASU MBE Optoelectronics Group actively participated in the 39th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2025), sharing their latest research results with the MBE community. Prof. Yong-Hang Zhang gave the Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awardee Talk, “6.1 Å to 6.5 Å Families: from Type-II Superlattice IR Lasers and Detectors to…

We are delighted to congratulate Professor Yong-Hang Zhang on receiving the Art Gossard MBE Innovator Award at NAMBE 2025. This award recognizes his pioneering contributions to Molecular Beam Epitaxy, including breakthroughs in type-II superlattice infrared devices and remote-junction solar cells. His recognition highlights the global impact of ASU’s MBE Optoelectronics Group.

Henry Garland, a rising undergraduate senior at Northern Arizona University, worked in the MBE Optoelectronics group under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Yong-Hang Zhang, Allison McMinn, Razine Hossain, Xiaoyang Liu, and Dr. Zheng Ju. His project was to perform temperature-dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy measurements of InAs/InAsSb and InAs/Ga(In)Sb type-II superlattices. He also aided in thorough MBE troubleshooting to…

Nathan Rosenblatt presented the group’s work (spearheaded by Xin Qi, Zheng Ju, and Xiaoyang Liu) on interface Fermi-level engineering for efficient CdTe solar cells without p-type doping at PVSC 2025. The talk was nominated for a best student presentation award and presents our results recently published in Solar RRL